500+ Best Cover Letter Examples to Pair w/ Your Resume

500+ Best Cover Letter Examples to Pair w/ Your Resume

To write a cover letter or not? That is the question!

Most hiring managers expect a cover letter in your job application—regardless of whether they specifically request one. Truth is, most aren’t taking the time to write a good cover letter (if they ever write one at all).

Don’t shoot yourself in the foot by missing this golden opportunity: Write a cover letter customized to the exact job you’re applying for—and you’ll stand out among candidates every time.

Knowing what to include in a cover letter is more than half of the battle! Our cover letter examples show you how to:

  • share your best work successes,
  • demonstrate your alignment with the company,
  • explain gaps in your work history,
  • and more.

Beauty Cover Letter Templates

Beauty cover letter samples to complement your resume

You bring out the best in people for a living. Let us help you bring out the best in yourself with these beauty cover letter samples to complement your resume.


Child Care Cover Letter Templates

Use these child care cover letter samples to complement your resume.

Day in and day out, you care for the well-being of others. Your compassion knows no bounds. Use these child care cover letter samples to complement your resume and help showcase that.


Creative Cover Letter Templates

These cover letter examples have worked for creative professionals from artists to photographers.

When you’re creative for a living the most challenging part of building a cover letter is figuring out how to channel that creativity. These creative cover letter examples have worked for creative professionals from artists to photographers to graphic designers.


Education Cover Letter Templates

Education cover letter examples to help you land that interview.

As an educator, you have to manage approximately 1,248 priorities simultaneously. How can you put that in a cover letter? These education cover letter examples try to help you answer that question.


Engineering Cover Letter Templates

Engineering cover letter examples

As an engineer, you are compensated for being logical. Nothing feels logical about trying to guess what you’re supposed to have in your cover letter. That’s where these engineering cover letter examples can help.


Finance & Accounting Cover Letter Templates

Our finance cover letter samples can help job seekers boost chances of getting an interview.

A finance professional knows that you’re only as valuable as you can demonstrate. What metrics should you include? How should you talk about your performance? These finance cover letter samples will show you.


Food Service Cover Letter Templates

Finance cover letter samples to win that job.

A finance professional knows you’re only as valuable as you can demonstrate. What metrics should you include? How should you talk about your performance? These finance cover letter samples will show you.


Health Care Cover Letter Templates

Our health care cover letter samples are a great starting point.

As a healthcare professional you take care of people for a living. We want to try to help you take care of your cover letter. These health care cover letter samples are a great starting point.


Information Technology (IT) Cover Letter Templates

IT cover letter samples designed for 2024.

Technology makes the modern world go round. It can be difficult for tech professionals to channel their logical brains into the oftentimes chaotic cover letter design process. These IT cover letter samples are a great starting point.


Logistics & Maintenance Cover Letter Templates

Our maintenance cover letter samples will provide that support for your cover letter.

Logistics and maintenance professionals are the backbone of most businesses. You provide support so the businesses can function as expected. These maintenance cover letter samples will provide that support for your cover letter.


Office Support & Administration Cover Letter Templates

Office support cover letter examples  to help you build a great cover letter.

You make sure the lights stay on, appointments are kept, and things are operating efficiently. Think of these samples as the office support for your cover letter. We’ll provide the assistance so you can build a great cover letter.


Retail Cover Letter Templates

Our retail cover letter examples will help you craft your application.

All day you assist customers. The good ones, the bad ones, and the really, really bad ones. Our retail cover letter examples are meant to turn the table and provide you support on crafting your application.


Sales & Marketing Cover Letter Templates

Sell yourself with our sales and marketing cover letter examples.

You can sell water to a fish. Now help to sell yourself with our sales and marketing cover letter examples.



Student Cover Letter Templates

Craft a compelling cover letter with our student cover letter samples.

How can you craft a compelling cover letter without much work experience? We’ll help you answer that question with our student cover letter samples.


What is a cover letter?

A cover letter is a short and sweet way to give hiring managers a glimpse into who you are as an employee and what you can bring to their company. It’s your chance to make a lasting and positive impression.

It’s probably also worth detailing what a cover letter is not.

A cover letter is not your life story, not pages of work history, and not a place to vent about coworkers or managers. For sure, some job seekers make the mistake of including these things in their cover letters, but we can assure you their applications won’t make it far.

The best cover letter is one that gives a genuine snapshot of the how and why behind your top work accomplishments (and how those accomplishments are relevant to the place you’re applying) and will leave hiring managers feeling confident in contacting you for a chance to connect.

How to write a cover letter?

Start by checking out cover letter samples that aren’t just generic fluff. Look for a cover letter example that does the following:

• addresses a specific company and its needs
• shares the candidate’s work achievements and how they were accomplished, and
• expresses genuine excitement for the role and a chance for an interview or future conversation.

A sample cover letter like that will be a guiding light for you to imitate.

Why?

Because you’ll be leaving an overly generalized and boring letter behind that no one wants to read. Instead, you’ll have a professional cover letter that excites recruiters and hiring managers because they’ll be able to see how your skills and past success on the job have impacted other companies; they’ll want to talk more about how you can do the same for them.

What should a cover letter include?

Before you figure out how to start a cover letter, format your cover letter properly and include the correct contact information for yourself and the recipient.

Moving on from there, you’ll need three to five short paragraphs:

• Paragraph 1: Make a connection with the company and demonstrate your qualifications for the job.
• Paragraphs 2-4: Highlight specific work accomplishments in the past, explaining the how and why, that are relevant to the needs and requirements of the company where you’re applying
• Paragraph 5: Sum up with a qualifying thought, demonstrate a confident interest in further conversation, and express gratitude for the hiring manager’s time.

Finally, sign off with a professional and kind close, such as “Sincerely,” “Kind regards,” “Thank you,” etc., and your name.

Do I need to write a cover letter?

FOMO (fear of missing out for those of you still catching up to today’s lingo) is a real thing, and while we’re not advocating that you let fear be your backseat driver, do you want to potentially miss out on your dream job just because you didn’t take the time to write a cover letter?

The thing is, most job seekers are blindly throwing their resumes out into the world with the hopes they’ll get a bite. It’s honestly a lot like that magnetic fishing game you always see kids doing at carnivals. There’s a whole bunch of ‘em overcrowded around a kiddie pool. Only one lucky kid’s going home with the rinky-dink prize; all the rest leave with shoulders slumped and feet shuffling to the next game.

But instead of sending your resume off to the masses and just hearing crickets, what if you added a cover letter and sent your matching duo off to, say, 5 companies a day? And what if you adjusted each cover letter to specifically address the needs of the company where you’re applying?

A good cover letter will take you places that your resume, on its own, just can’t. And a cover letter tailored to the company where you want to work is going to be hard for a hiring manager to pass up. All of a sudden, you’re the kid who wised up about the magnetic fishing game and went straight for the dunking booth—because you know you’ve got good aim.

How long should a cover letter be?

Gone are the days of two to three-page cover letters—or at least those days should be gone!

Great cover letters will never be longer than a page. If it takes someone three pages to explain how fantastic they are at what they do, doesn’t that make you a little wary? This is the time to be confident in your skills and abilities, and it should only take a short cover letter to do it.

Short cover letters respect the time of recruiters and hiring managers while clearly and quickly showing them what you can bring to the table.

Are BeamJobs cover letters free?

Yup. We’ve got over 500 example cover letters across all industries to guide you in creating a cover letter for the job you want. Our sample cover letters and tips will build your confidence, as you’ll know exactly what to include in yours.

Not only are our cover letter examples free, but our cover letter generator is free for you to use, too. Pair your resume with the job description, and we’ll generate a cover letter for you tailored to the role. Complete the package with a free cover letter template that matches your BeamJobs resume.